My friend and I are working on the specs for something very similar, except that in our design the bus master sat outside of the bus. Either way, we came up with an interesting system where one half of the bus operated as something resembling a token-ring network (except unlike the original it would not choke on a newly inserted card), operating in an asynchronous mode, the other half being a sort of back-door into each card's memory, so that the bus master could mediate DMA transfers of a sort. The other concepts we had were, as alluded to before, for hot-plugging cards.
While the solution expressed earlier (Layer 3 Addressing w/ a seperate virtual Layer 2 network for each node of each switch) would also work, this makes more sense in that it almost certainly would cost less to set up. Also, it could be an easily reusable solution. The red/yellow/green box could be done w/ LEDs as mentioned but would be much simpler done just as a part of a GUI display.
There's no good reason why you can't set up a wireless relay network with directional antennae. If you find the speed to be lacking (11Mbps should not be), you can always work out a creative routing solution that bonds two or more WiFi channels together. If this isn't enough for you, cabling is the only way to go...lasers have already been proven not to work that well until you reach very dangerous levels. The other possibilities for such a system are if you wanted to lease loops from your local telco monopoly, but this is really only viable if you want to serve more than a few people. As for running cable...there's a chance that, if you don't have to run it across a road, the city will allow you, it never hurts to ask.
You don't exactly have to dissasemble anything, you could put something together that selects and ejects a certain CD from the 400-disc changer and puts it into the CD-writer. That would be a much simpler "robotic arm" than the one that picked up a new CD out of a pile, and most of the CD-selection would already be done by the changer.
First of all, Bluetooth IS 802.11b.
Second, there are a few channels on 802.11b, and unless you are running three networks or are in an area with an area-wide network, you shouldn't run out of channels. Each channel has the full 802.11b bandwidth.
I've written a version of those animated mouse pointers, using direct-to-card interfaces (there are some BIOS interfaces available as well), as well as done some windowing and such. Those are quite nice, and faster than full graphics mode (did it from QB4.5 on a 486DX266 w/o noticable slowdown), but the big problem here is that they also tend to require a VGA board...not sure wether any EGA boards will do it, or if XGA will...but chances are the answer is no. Anyway, that's my $0.02.
This is all well and good, but here in the US, while the illegal drug cartels may not buy lobbyists, the legal ones certainly do. The alcohol and tobacco companies spend enormous amounts of money lobbying, especially the tobacco companies. These are the two that would be hardest hit by legalization of a much less dangerous substance that causes similar if not more pronounced and uplifting mood altering effects, that substance being marijuana. I am all for the legalization or at least decriminalization of it, but I do not see it happening any day soon without much more concerted effort than is currently being put forth. ________________________me(who else?)
Well, given that the colors are indeed given as normed values, essentially all they give us is a hue and a saturation, no luminosity. Assuming a full luminosity (highest given # is is equal to FF), it easily computes to:
RED:0xB1
GREEN:0xFF
BLUE:0xE1
I used the WinXP Powertoys calculator...and actually, it gives decimals...err....well, it puts a . into hex numbers and gives you what probably amounts to 1/16, 1/256, etc. places after it....just in case anyone's interested.
--me(who else?)
Well, at least as far as the power consumption goes, those EL lightstrips featured on ThinkGeek and other places are a good way to go. They are like your Indiglo watch...that's how they work, and they don't use much power at all, a few mA at the most. I know they're a little expensive, but hey, so are laptops. As far as installing them, depending on your machine you should have some space in there for the inverter. Hope this helps.
________________________________Me
(who were you expecting? mr. gates?)
Check out The Homepage for some info. They appear to be just a pad with a smartcard reader in it...and chances are with a little R.E. (a la the CueCat), they could be converted into something quite nice.
As far as the having the bucks to call someone, if it is in your city, I suggest you check out Cricket wireless. It's not necissarily cutting-edge technology but it's definately cutting-edge marketing. Flat rate per month, no minute-caps. At least for someone on a small budget, it's a great solution.
That's quite hard to believe. I personally actually quite liked Wesley Crusher...
As for Deana Troi, until she went on some kind of diet, she was quite attractive, and one of my favorite sights on the show...
But that's just my opinion.
_______________________________________Trinn
(you were expecting maybe the Grinch?)
Well, in Dimitry's case, as well as in many others, it comes to mind that just because a law was passed, does not mean it must be obeyed. If a law is judged unjust, american people have the responsibility to protest it in a way that will cause positive results. That includes both peaceful demonstrations as well as breaking of the law in peaceful ways, to allow, in this case, fair use of the media that is being unjustly kept from us. If we do not protest this law, then it will stay on the books. If we do protest this law, we will at least have a chance of winning, as long as protests do not get violent. I will stress that again. Protests must not become violent. Violent protest has achieved almost none of its goals, throughout history. Non-violent, peaceful protest requires a stronger commitment, but it gets more done, always has, always will. People are more likely to respond to it. It is a very large commitment, but it is one we need to make when we feel a law or other social situation is unjust. Civil disobedience must stay civil. We must peacibly assemble, and petition the government for redress of grievances, as is still for the moment our right in this country.
___________________________________Trinn --who else would be signing my post, a Pikachu?
As the old saying goes..."If I had a mod point..."
Well, if I did I would mod this up. Since I don't I'll just post and say that this is as good a post as I've seen in a while here on/. The US needs a little more "information anarchy" than it gets, because anarchy implies "without controls", and information should be available "without controls", because information in and of itself is harmless. The worst one could find with freely available information is where security holes are. By definition if they are security holes, they can be closed, and should be. If the information is not freely available then they may not be closed until it is too late. Security through Obscurity will never work. It has been tried and has failed many times over.
We have an athlon 1.2GHz, on a motherboard that although allows monitor & protection for CPU Fan Off, comes with that set at default as OFF! Before we knew the fan had failed, we actually were able to run the system, from a cold state, for about 10-20 minutes without any trouble, and on pretty intensive applications. (No Quake, but a lot of Windoze processor intensive stuff...do you know how many cycles it takes just to shuffle stuff around in its brain-damaged memory scheme?) After that amount of time, it would BSOD and halt. Anyway, when we put a new fan on the system, it worked fine. I'm typing on it right now, and we haven't seen even one problem that would suggest anything has happened to the processor. Point is, make sure you have your motherboard protection turned on if it is provided, and also, Athlons are much more durable than some give them credit for. (This problem was happening for about 3 or 4 days.)
I agree, these will not be around long. They are not a terrible idea though, someone just needs to make ones out of better technology. Right now the picture is probably on par with a webcam.
It's 2.4x as efficient.
I've not been through the whole article, but that seems to be what it means. It apparently uses a very similar if not the same effect, just with better, more efficient materials.
Public Interest Lobbies. Now there's an idea. With all this talk of our founding fathers, I wonder if anyone has thought to mention that this is actually one of their ideas. The whole purpose of representative democracy is that the representatives follow their constituents and the public's will. One of the best ways to insure this is by gathering into groups, and using the channels now reserved for large corporations. If you look back into our nation's history, large groups of the public have had a great deal of success in changing the world as we know it. There is no reason what-so-ever that it could not happen again. Particularly now when most of the public actually has their eyes open for a brief moment in history.
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What...you mean you can't do 128-bit hashing in your head? What kind of geek are you???
My friend and I are working on the specs for something very similar, except that in our design the bus master sat outside of the bus. Either way, we came up with an interesting system where one half of the bus operated as something resembling a token-ring network (except unlike the original it would not choke on a newly inserted card), operating in an asynchronous mode, the other half being a sort of back-door into each card's memory, so that the bus master could mediate DMA transfers of a sort. The other concepts we had were, as alluded to before, for hot-plugging cards.
While the solution expressed earlier (Layer 3 Addressing w/ a seperate virtual Layer 2 network for each node of each switch) would also work, this makes more sense in that it almost certainly would cost less to set up. Also, it could be an easily reusable solution. The red/yellow/green box could be done w/ LEDs as mentioned but would be much simpler done just as a part of a GUI display.
There's no good reason why you can't set up a wireless relay network with directional antennae. If you find the speed to be lacking (11Mbps should not be), you can always work out a creative routing solution that bonds two or more WiFi channels together. If this isn't enough for you, cabling is the only way to go...lasers have already been proven not to work that well until you reach very dangerous levels. The other possibilities for such a system are if you wanted to lease loops from your local telco monopoly, but this is really only viable if you want to serve more than a few people. As for running cable...there's a chance that, if you don't have to run it across a road, the city will allow you, it never hurts to ask.
Last I checked, 3G was a frequency band. Am I wrong about this?
You don't exactly have to dissasemble anything, you could put something together that selects and ejects a certain CD from the 400-disc changer and puts it into the CD-writer. That would be a much simpler "robotic arm" than the one that picked up a new CD out of a pile, and most of the CD-selection would already be done by the changer.
First of all, Bluetooth IS 802.11b. Second, there are a few channels on 802.11b, and unless you are running three networks or are in an area with an area-wide network, you shouldn't run out of channels. Each channel has the full 802.11b bandwidth.
it's a monitor. it prob. also sends keyboard/and-or mouse signals. I would assume it hooks up both to a usb port and to the vga-out port.
Actually this ID can be turned off and is not required for the downloading of codecs. It has been covered before.
I've written a version of those animated mouse pointers, using direct-to-card interfaces (there are some BIOS interfaces available as well), as well as done some windowing and such. Those are quite nice, and faster than full graphics mode (did it from QB4.5 on a 486DX266 w/o noticable slowdown), but the big problem here is that they also tend to require a VGA board...not sure wether any EGA boards will do it, or if XGA will...but chances are the answer is no. Anyway, that's my $0.02.
This is all well and good, but here in the US, while the illegal drug cartels may not buy lobbyists, the legal ones certainly do. The alcohol and tobacco companies spend enormous amounts of money lobbying, especially the tobacco companies. These are the two that would be hardest hit by legalization of a much less dangerous substance that causes similar if not more pronounced and uplifting mood altering effects, that substance being marijuana. I am all for the legalization or at least decriminalization of it, but I do not see it happening any day soon without much more concerted effort than is currently being put forth.
________________________me(who else?)
Well, given that the colors are indeed given as normed values, essentially all they give us is a hue and a saturation, no luminosity. Assuming a full luminosity (highest given # is is equal to FF), it easily computes to:
RED:0xB1
GREEN:0xFF
BLUE:0xE1
I used the WinXP Powertoys calculator...and actually, it gives decimals...err....well, it puts a . into hex numbers and gives you what probably amounts to 1/16, 1/256, etc. places after it....just in case anyone's interested.
--me(who else?)
Well, at least as far as the power consumption goes, those EL lightstrips featured on ThinkGeek and other places are a good way to go. They are like your Indiglo watch...that's how they work, and they don't use much power at all, a few mA at the most. I know they're a little expensive, but hey, so are laptops. As far as installing them, depending on your machine you should have some space in there for the inverter. Hope this helps.
________________________________Me
(who were you expecting? mr. gates?)
Check out The Homepage for some info. They appear to be just a pad with a smartcard reader in it...and chances are with a little R.E. (a la the CueCat), they could be converted into something quite nice.
Just my $0.02
Someone else who bought the Dreamcast Fishing Controller then?
As far as the having the bucks to call someone, if it is in your city, I suggest you check out Cricket wireless. It's not necissarily cutting-edge technology but it's definately cutting-edge marketing. Flat rate per month, no minute-caps. At least for someone on a small budget, it's a great solution.
wow...never thought I'd see this day. not only is it a space-suit of the future, it's a post in a timewarp!
Just right-click on the taskbar thingy and hit close. It easily goes away. That's not exactly the hardest thing to do, now is it?
That's quite hard to believe. I personally actually quite liked Wesley Crusher...
As for Deana Troi, until she went on some kind of diet, she was quite attractive, and one of my favorite sights on the show...
But that's just my opinion.
_______________________________________Trinn
(you were expecting maybe the Grinch?)
Well, in Dimitry's case, as well as in many others, it comes to mind that just because a law was passed, does not mean it must be obeyed. If a law is judged unjust, american people have the responsibility to protest it in a way that will cause positive results. That includes both peaceful demonstrations as well as breaking of the law in peaceful ways, to allow, in this case, fair use of the media that is being unjustly kept from us. If we do not protest this law, then it will stay on the books. If we do protest this law, we will at least have a chance of winning, as long as protests do not get violent. I will stress that again. Protests must not become violent. Violent protest has achieved almost none of its goals, throughout history. Non-violent, peaceful protest requires a stronger commitment, but it gets more done, always has, always will. People are more likely to respond to it. It is a very large commitment, but it is one we need to make when we feel a law or other social situation is unjust. Civil disobedience must stay civil. We must peacibly assemble, and petition the government for redress of grievances, as is still for the moment our right in this country.
___________________________________Trinn
--who else would be signing my post, a Pikachu?
As the old saying goes..."If I had a mod point..." Well, if I did I would mod this up. Since I don't I'll just post and say that this is as good a post as I've seen in a while here on /. The US needs a little more "information anarchy" than it gets, because anarchy implies "without controls", and information should be available "without controls", because information in and of itself is harmless. The worst one could find with freely available information is where security holes are. By definition if they are security holes, they can be closed, and should be. If the information is not freely available then they may not be closed until it is too late. Security through Obscurity will never work. It has been tried and has failed many times over.
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Can anyone donate one?
We have an athlon 1.2GHz, on a motherboard that although allows monitor & protection for CPU Fan Off, comes with that set at default as OFF! Before we knew the fan had failed, we actually were able to run the system, from a cold state, for about 10-20 minutes without any trouble, and on pretty intensive applications. (No Quake, but a lot of Windoze processor intensive stuff...do you know how many cycles it takes just to shuffle stuff around in its brain-damaged memory scheme?) After that amount of time, it would BSOD and halt. Anyway, when we put a new fan on the system, it worked fine. I'm typing on it right now, and we haven't seen even one problem that would suggest anything has happened to the processor. Point is, make sure you have your motherboard protection turned on if it is provided, and also, Athlons are much more durable than some give them credit for. (This problem was happening for about 3 or 4 days.)
I agree, these will not be around long. They are not a terrible idea though, someone just needs to make ones out of better technology. Right now the picture is probably on par with a webcam.
It's 2.4x as efficient.
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I've not been through the whole article, but that seems to be what it means. It apparently uses a very similar if not the same effect, just with better, more efficient materials.
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Public Interest Lobbies. Now there's an idea. With all this talk of our founding fathers, I wonder if anyone has thought to mention that this is actually one of their ideas. The whole purpose of representative democracy is that the representatives follow their constituents and the public's will. One of the best ways to insure this is by gathering into groups, and using the channels now reserved for large corporations. If you look back into our nation's history, large groups of the public have had a great deal of success in changing the world as we know it. There is no reason what-so-ever that it could not happen again. Particularly now when most of the public actually has their eyes open for a brief moment in history.
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